I know Itachi > Jirayia
That wasnt my point.
My point is you allow yourself to take 1 thing in the manga for fiction but at the same time when it falls in your favor it seems more plausible for u that a character out of nowhere gets powers aka charles xavier and on that makes ridiculous illogical statements.
No, as i provided the reasons as to why i believe Itachi was superior to Jiraiya and why it was ''obvious''....
I did the same for Naruto and Sasuke.
Had Naruto admit that he was unable to defeat to Sasuke just once, it would have been POSSIBLE that he was protecting Sasuke.... yet only POSSIBLE, not canon.
But he said it AGAIN to himself alone without any reason to lie to the sage, then it's not hiding something... it's confirming it.
Im not taking everything that is said in the manga as completly canon, circumstances are of great importances.... but there is a limit to everything.
Refusing to take everything as canon as just as bad as taking everything. But the problem is that in the world, we need to give the benefit of the doubt and that we are to believe something intil proven wrong.
Had naruto said it once, i could have understood you, but when he repeats himself in order to confirm to us that he indeed knows that he can,t possibly defeat Sasuke, you need to realise that enough is enough.
OT ; poll has 2 choices... not 3
Can Sage Naruto defeat MS Sasuke, evidence points towards no,
Could it be a tie; Yes, but poll has Yes or No.